Dear New York,
We are thrilled to invite you to Lincoln Center's second annual Summer for the City, the ultimate New York festival, featuring hundreds of free events and thousands of artists in celebration of the vibrant cultural communities of NYC.
This summer builds on a city reimagining itself—finding hope in community, and planting seeds for the future. Over three months, we welcome all New Yorkers to come dance, love, and celebrate together through our long-standing traditions of social dance and classical music, and new traditions like our wedding for hundreds of couples, and a ‘second line’ processional to honor lives lost.
Together with visionary artist Clint Ramos, we animate every inch of our campus all summer long, creating welcoming spaces infused with greenery and colorful botanicals. Our spaces include The Garden, Hearst Plaza, The Underground at Jaffe Drive, The Reading Room, and The Dance Floor at Josie Robertson Plaza, the centerpiece of the festival and the city’s largest outdoor dance floor with a, now iconic, mega disco ball for social dance nights, silent discos, and more.
In collaboration with a multitude of artistic curators and partners across campus and the city, we’re offering something for everyone—from a celebration of Korean cultural traditions during Korean Arts Week, the New York City premiere of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower, a week-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop, to the return of the BAAND Together Dance Festival, globalFEST, and Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra concerts. Whether it’s having a lunch break at any of our outdoor dining options, taking selfies with the installation of 200 flamingoes, or staying late for a silent disco, we invite you to come together, see yourselves, and find your home away from home.
